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- | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, London UK, from autumn/ | + | **feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, London UK, autumn/ |
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2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is changing - incoming small business and studios - the cafe would be an interface to that. A means of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. | 2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is changing - incoming small business and studios - the cafe would be an interface to that. A means of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. | ||
- | Conceptual | + | Concepts |
http: The cafe will demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology that promotes free | http: The cafe will demonstrate an alternate economy and ecology that promotes free | ||
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Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. | Even at this small scale it has a polemic value. | ||
- | ((Feral Trade relies on a moving network of social connections for the transportation of goods. Trade managed through an intricate time-space-personal system covering thousands of miles, linking hundreds of people, like the Trobriand islanders of yore. The orderly distribution of goods via a variety of motives, of which gain is not prominent.)) | + | Economics((Feral Trade relies on a moving network of social connections for the transportation of goods. Trade managed through an intricate time-space-personal system covering thousands of miles, linking hundreds of people, like the Trobriand islanders of yore. The orderly distribution of goods via a variety of motives, of which gain is not prominent.)) |
- | Economic | + | Profit is not a necessary motive |
- | + | ||
- | Profit is not a necessary motive - which opens up the operating territory considerably. | + | |
Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide a heady surplus for office consumption. Seed funding will be required for start-up equipment and utensils: HTTP or external. | Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide a heady surplus for office consumption. Seed funding will be required for start-up equipment and utensils: HTTP or external. | ||
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Currently Ale (Furtherfield administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sundays they hire an invigilator. | Currently Ale (Furtherfield administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sundays they hire an invigilator. | ||
- | Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with other office activity? | + | Hazards: |
+ | At what scale would the cafe interfere with other office activity? | ||
* roles for cafe. | * roles for cafe. | ||
**Service: | **Service: | ||
- | Cafe service | + | Service |
this kind of distributed culture is integral to the way Furtherfield works as a group. | this kind of distributed culture is integral to the way Furtherfield works as a group. | ||
http:// | http:// | ||
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At a minimum, tables, chairs, umbrellas and signage to communicate cafe presence to the nighbourhood. | At a minimum, tables, chairs, umbrellas and signage to communicate cafe presence to the nighbourhood. | ||
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- | The decking along the side of HTTP building is potential cafe seating area. HTTP to sound the landlord out on this between rent payments, | + | The decking along the side of HTTP building is potential cafe seating area, although in terms of afternoon sun gets a total eclipse. HTTP to sound the landlord out on decking |
Landlord relations are distantly friendly. There is a janitor who keeps a close eye | Landlord relations are distantly friendly. There is a janitor who keeps a close eye | ||
on the compound. If landlord rejects decking plans, the parking spaces in front are | on the compound. If landlord rejects decking plans, the parking spaces in front are | ||
- | formally HTTP' | + | formally HTTP' |
Liability would need to be thought through or ignored. | Liability would need to be thought through or ignored. | ||
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* other models (positive and negative) | * other models (positive and negative) | ||
- | | + | Cafe Kino http:// |
- | Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop & Gallery over the road. | + | Many of their customers are from their extended social networks, probably from |
- | Many of their customers are from their extended social networks, probably from | + | within a few blocks radius. People go there for the sociability, |
- | within a few blocks radius. People go there for the sociability, | + | good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social |
- | good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social | + | networks.)) |
- | networks. | + | Leila' |
- | Leila' | ||
- | againsts: http:// | ||
===== HTTP structure | ===== HTTP structure | ||
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[[uk_premises_regulations]] | [[uk_premises_regulations]] | ||
- | Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. | ||
Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance. | Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance. | ||
+ | Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. | ||
http:// | http:// | ||
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* Stock Options | * Stock Options | ||
+ | All menu items should be also available to buy as take-home groceries, where possible. | ||
Stock selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Considerations include: | Stock selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Considerations include: | ||
- | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters | ||
- shelf life: avoid sales incentive or waste | - shelf life: avoid sales incentive or waste | ||
- the facility of the food item to reveal information ((The commodity, | - the facility of the food item to reveal information ((The commodity, | ||
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- information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce | - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce | ||
- information on carriage, network and delivery relations embodied by courier/s. | - information on carriage, network and delivery relations embodied by courier/s. | ||
+ | - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters | ||
- seasonality, | - seasonality, | ||
- locality | - locality | ||
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* Information | * Information | ||
- | Ingredients and products with questionable ethics | + | Ingredients and products with questionable |
to articulate a broader picture of the world the product moves through. | to articulate a broader picture of the world the product moves through. | ||
[[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. | [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. | ||
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* Other Menu Information | * Other Menu Information | ||
- | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: | + | [[breakdown_of_expenses]]: |
- | + | Cafe receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, | |
- | Customer | + | |
* Reciprocity | * Reciprocity | ||
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* Seasonality | * Seasonality | ||
- | Economy of miniaturisation / smallscale. Enables hosting small batches/ | + | Economy of downscale. Enables hosting small batches/ |
* Localness | * Localness | ||
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- | or nation state, to more closely replicate the world HTTP works in. A shared set | + | or nation state, to more closely replicate the worlds |
of connections and navigable routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | of connections and navigable routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet. | ||
* Suppliers | * Suppliers | ||
- | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' | + | Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' |
* Delivery | * Delivery | ||
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- Cola from Bristol. | - Cola from Bristol. | ||
- Salt from Gujarat | - Salt from Gujarat | ||
- | - Zaytoun olive oil and other products http:// | + | - Zaytoun olive oil and other products |
+ | |||
+ | http:// | ||
* Other organisational contenders | * Other organisational contenders | ||
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trade by primarily social means. In documenting this process it expands the | trade by primarily social means. In documenting this process it expands the | ||
idea of food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation of origins, to | idea of food provenance beyond a gourmet-style fetishisation of origins, to | ||
- | broader | + | the broader |
The cafe hopes to promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, | The cafe hopes to promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, |